PPFO100 Personal Development
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Knut Omholt
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Limits of class size:20
Course frequency:Annually.
Nominal workload:A total of 125 hours. 45 hours of structured teaching. 80 hours self-effort for self-study, work with exercises and writing of essay / assignment.
Teaching and exam period:The course starts in the autumn parallel. The course has teaching and assessment in the autumn parallel.
About this course
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The candidate
- knows and can describe essential theories and perspectives on factors that can contribute to personal development.
Skills
The candidate
- can reflect on the forces that apply in situations where one must make an important choice
- can reflect on factors that affect one's identity and self-image and one's relationships with others
- can find sources that can put one's situation and life into a larger context
- can use methods to keep calm in situations that challenge one's presence.
General competence
The candidate
- can accommodate other people's sharing of experiences and share their own life experiences
- can take the initiative to communicate with others about matters that may affect important choices in life
- can find ways for further personal development.
- Lectures on key perspectives on what personal development is and what forms the basis for it, with conversations and group work. Exercises in raising awareness of one's mental state and development through meditation, sensing the body, inner dialogues and writing and other expressions.
- Guidance will be given in writing the essay that forms the assessment basis in the course.
- None.
- Individual written assignment - Pass / Fail.
- An external examiner approves the assessment plan and participates in the censorship of all the assignments.
- Participation in 80% of the teaching.
- 20 hours lecture with conversations and group work. 25 hours exercises. A total of 45 hours.
- Registration with motivation letter to the course coordinator. The motivation letter should be approx. half a page and say something about the applicant's personal reason for taking the course - what it is about what makes one apply, and what it can contribute to one's development, preferably also a few words about how one intends to use the competence one gets further. If more people sign up than the maximum number, participants will be drawn according to criteria that are determined.
- Passed / Not Passed
- GSK